kakorama: a ride into the past
 

 

July 25th, 1942...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Jingle Jangle Jingle"
by Kay Kyser

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Dmitri Shostakovich

(TIME Cover: July the 20th, 1942)

 Famous people born on the 25th of July:

1109 - Afonso I of Portugal (d. 1185)
1562 - Kiyomasa Kato, Japanese warlord (d. 1611)
1870 - Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966)
1901 - Lila Lee, American actress (d. 1973)
1946 - Rita Marley, Jamaican-Cuban singer
1967 - Matt LeBlanc, American actor

     
Oscar of the best picture in 1942

Mrs. Miniver
directed by William Wyler
with Walter Pidgeon (Clem Miniver) and Greer Garson (Kay Miniver)

Designed in 1942

The Stool
by Mogens Lassen

 
 
 
     

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